Cover for pneumatic tires.



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COVER POR PNEUMATIC TIRES.

Il! lill' APPLICATION FILED 0012.11, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICES EDOUARD FORT1ERBEAULIEU, OF ROANNE, FRANCE,ASSIGNOR TO STE. FOBTlER-BEAULIEU,IJEUNE, OF ROANNE, FRANCE.

oovER Fon PNEUMA'rlo TIRES.

ivi-1.925315.

Specification of Letters Patent.

To aZZ whom t may concern.-

Be' 'it known that I, EDOUARD FORTIER- BEAULIEU, acitizen ofFranca/residing at Roanne, Loire, France, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Prosired. For simplicity such leather will beherein referred to as hair-leather.

The object of the invention is in part to cover the thick shoe of thetire with a mantle of hair-leather having the hair on the outside.Another is to rovide the tire with an outer trade-band ol) hair-leatherstudded with headed metal rivets, the latter extending inward throughthe mantle and serving to connect said mantle and tread, and another isto provide a protecting-band of hairleather dis osed between the shoeand the mantle an between the said rivets and said shoe to protect theshoe'from the rivets.

In the drawinUl the vieW is a cross-section of the tire with theair-tube omitted. l

The shoe A may be made, as usual, of al# ternate layers of rubber andWoven fabric. There is no novelty this. The shoe is covered eXteriorlwith a mantle B of hairleather with t e hair disposed exteriorly or onthe outside.

On the mantle B is mounted a tread C, also of hair-leather, with thehair disposed outwardly. This tread is in the form of a stri of uniformwidth, and it is secured to t e mantle A by means of headed metal rivetsD,

ywhich extend inwardly through the mantle and are riveted at their innerends. Such rivets or studs are not in themselves new in this art.

Between the shoe A-and the mantle B is a protecting band or strip E ofhair-leather, disposed between the shoe and the inner ends of the rivetsor studs, as clearly shown. This hand protects the shoe from injury bythe rivets. The band E maybe cemented to the shoe in order to keep it inlace.

The hair side or face oi the leather being exposed outwardly serves as apro tection,foi` the reason that this face of the leather is moreresistant to injury from almost all causes than is the other sideor-face.

Having thus described my invention,'l clairn-u 1. A protecting devicefor a pneumatic tire, having a protecting-mantle of leather with thehair on, the hair side or face of said leather being disposed outwardly.n

2. A protecting device for a pneumatic tire, having a shoe, and a mantlecoverin said shoe, said mantle being of leather tanne with the hair on,and saidcleather having its hair side or face disposed outwardly.

3. A protecting device for a pneumatic tire, comprising a shoe A, amantle B over said shoe, said mantle being of hair-leather with ,thehair side disposed outwardly, a tread C, also of hair-leather with thehair side thereof disposed outwardly, headed rivets D which extendthrough the mantle and tread and-secure them together, and a strip ofhair-leather E, interposed between the mantle B and the shoe A, as setforth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of twosubscritblng witnesses.

EDOUARD FORMER-BEAULIEU.

Witnesses:

MARIN VAoHoN,. PA'UL VEYRE.

